Illustrated Books from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

1940. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. 8vo, 393 pp. Beige cloth, lettered and illustrated in blue, lacking dust jacket. Signed by the Kent on the front free endpaper and by a later owner, "John S Perl MD" on the title page. Very good. § "Special Edition for Friday Inc." An attractive, signed copy of… Read more about this item

1818. London: Published by the Proprietor, J. P. Neale, 1818. 2 vols, 4to (large paper?). Vol. 1: (18), [1-3], 4-72, (10), [1]-227, (19)pp. with engraved title, frontispiece, separate title page, 10 plates as called for plus one not mentioned in the Directions to the Binder ("Doorway to Oratory"). Vol 2: (2), [1-3], 4-304, (40)pp, with engraved title,… Read more about this item

2020. Whittington, UK: Nomad Letterpress and The Society of Wood Engravers, 2020. Folio, 325 x 250 mm, 100 pp., printed on Zerkall mould-made paper using Monotype Perpetua (Series 239) cast by Neil Winter at the Whittington Press in an addition of 340 copies. Numerous illustrations in black and white throughout. § § One of 30… Read more about this item

1812. London: R. Ackermann, 1812. 2 vols, large 4to, [i-xx], [1]-330 including appendix, [6, index]; [i-iv], [1]-275, [1, blank],[4, index]pp. 83 plates in all, viz: 1 plan and 1 portrait both uncolored, 1 colored line engraving and 80 full-page aquatints. Old half red morocco, rebacked preserving original gilt-pannelled backstrip, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt, bookplates.… Read more about this item

1885. Edmonton: William Muir, 1885. 4to, 1p.preface by Muir, 27 leaves hand-colored, 1p.appendix, 2 leaves at the end in facsimile of Blake's manuscript arrangement of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, and the separate uncolored plate 'A Divine Image'. Original printed wrappers, backstrip and edges strengthened with brown paper, covers soiled. Internally very good as issued. … Read more about this item

1819. London: J. Robins and Co., 1819-1820. 4 vols, 8vo. Forty hand-colored etched plates after Cruikshank, including four frontispieces and four vignette titles. Full brick red morocco, backstrips lightly sunned, scattered foxing. Bookplates of Albert Ramsay-Cohn and of one other; early ownership inscription of Adam Paterson on front blank in each vol. Very good. § First… Read more about this item

2005. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. 2 volumes large folio, 548 pages full-colour facsimile & accompanying 362 pages commentary; as new in blue cloth, dust-jackets. In a blue cloth box, worn. A complete facsimile of all 537 watercolors from the original edition in the British Museum. As new. § William Blake was commissioned in 1795 to illustrate… Read more about this item

1921. 1910s-1920s. 52 items from a variety of presses and publishers. A complete itemized list with condition notes is available on request. § An extensive collection of books, broadsides, and ephemera showcasing the illustrations of Claud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921), English artist, designer, and author, and one of the three men behind the private press The Sign… Read more about this item

1819. London: Printed for J. Hassell, 1819. 8vo, viii, 147, (4)pp. with 24 hand-colored aquatint plates drawn and engraved by Hassell. Contemporary olive green morocco, gilt rules, decorations and lettering, a.e.g. Binding slightly rubbed, occasional foxing; a near fine copy with the bookplate of John Francis Neylan designed by William Hancock Wilke and printed by John Henry… Read more about this item

1894. London: Elkin Matthews and John Lane, 1894. Small 4to, [22] ff., unpaginated, illustrated throughout by Ricketts. Washed and cleaned to remove all the inevitable spotting always found, and rebound in stiff vellum retaining the elaborate gilt covers designed by Ricketts; printed on Arnold unbleached hand-made paper with green printed initials and russet headlines and full-page illustrations. … Read more about this item

1924. 1924. Single offset color print, 7 x 9.5 inches, matted. Fine. § A single illustration by Charles Buckles Falls from Mother Goose (1924). Falls was born in 1874 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an artist, illustrator, publisher, editor and an author, but we know him best today as an illustrator of children's books. His… Read more about this item

1924. 1924. Single offset color print, 7 x 9.5 inches, matted. Fine. § A single illustration by Charles Buckles Falls from Mother Goose (1924). Falls was born in 1874 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an artist, illustrator, publisher, editor and an author, but we know him best today as an illustrator of children's books. His… Read more about this item

1924. 1924. Single offset color print, 7 x 9.5 inches, matted. Fine, small abrasion to the mat. § A single illustration by Charles Buckles Falls from Mother Goose (1924). Falls was born in 1874 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an artist, illustrator, publisher, editor and an author, but we know him best today as an… Read more about this item

1929. New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. 4to. Frontispiece and 9 colored plates. Black cloth spine, batik paper boards, gilt lettering. Minor offsetting to plates, else a fine copy without dust-jacket in the original numbered slipcase, lightly worn. § First large paper and first illustrated edition, one of 775 copies signed by O'Neill. "A classic expressionist… Read more about this item

1924. 1924. Single offset color print, 7 x 9.5 inches, matted. Fine. § A single illustration by Charles Buckles Falls from Mother Goose (1924). Falls was born in 1874 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an artist, illustrator, publisher, editor and an author, but we know him best today as an illustrator of children's books. His… Read more about this item

1877. [San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets (this is copy #131); this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to show the grapes in superb color… Read more about this item

1924. 1924. Single offset color print, 7 x 9.5 inches, matted. Fine. § A single illustration by Charles Buckles Falls from Mother Goose (1924). Falls was born in 1874 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was an artist, illustrator, publisher, editor and an author, but we know him best today as an illustrator of children's books. His… Read more about this item

1947. New York, Viking Press, 1947. Large 8vo, 213 pp. Original beige cloth lettered on the backstrip, with mounted color plate on upper board; a few spots to text block edge but otherwise a very good, clean, square copy in a very good price-clipped dust-jacket, lightly toned and edgeworn. § Newly illustrated deluxe edition with reproductions in… Read more about this item

1929. Paul Hartmann, 1929. 4to, 86 pp., illustrated with 18 original etchings by Jean Bruller, hand-colored. Original printed wrappers over stiff card. Moderately foxed, backstrip paper with splits, binding cracked, but complete and with the bold illustrations still bright. § Copy number XXXIII of XXXV copies on Madagascar paper for La Librairie Champion, with an original… Read more about this item

1951. London: Trianon Press, [1951]. 4to, (6), ix text, and 100 color plates. Original blue cloth, prospectus loosely inserted, folding box, very good. § Limited to 516 copies, this is #419. The first of the magnificent series of facsimiles by the Trianon Press of Blake's illuminated books, edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Bentley, Blake Books, 78. Butlin… Read more about this item